We’ve been sitting on the driveway gate opener for quite a while. A number of other projects took precedence. But we’ve finally wired it in and tested it last week. There still need to be some finishing touches on the wiring of the IR sensor which stops the gate closing if someone or something gets…
Pictures of God rays
Today, I watched as dark rain clouds appeared to the west and blew in. Earlier this evening, I kicked off a quick blog post about watching the wind and rain hit the land. But in the afternoon, I snapped off a few pictures of the clouds coming in. The rays of light shining down from…
Watching a storm brewing
We’ve spent the last few days at the land with Praew’s mother in BaanMae. Just now a dark storm cloud came blowing in. I feel kinda old saying this but there is something quite enjoyable just sitting on the front balcony in my comfy chair and watching the storm clouds coming in. The wind is…
Hacking your biosigns
I’ve been interested in health data as much as anything else over the past few years. I bought the Withings Pulse (now called Pulse Ox) a number of years back thinking it would be more hackable than the FitBit, but it basically isn’t. I’m a little uncomfortable handing over my heart rate, level of daily…
Restaurant review Breizh Crepes
Today, we went to a Saturday brunch at Breizh Crepes on soi Suan Plu 8. It is a small stall in a nice little eating area with trees and outdoor tables in Village Suan Plu. There is a parking lot in Village Suan Plu that is apparently free for restaurant customers. (At least they didn’t…
Building the walkway around the pond
We’ve begun building the walkway around the pond. Here are a few pictures of the first section starting at the driveway:
Slow sand filter: installing a float switch to control the water pump
Since the aerobic treatment system (ATS) dumps the water out into a 1 cubic meter cistern below the ground, and the slow sand filter we want to use to filter this is above ground about 5 meters away, we are using a large aquarium pump to pump the effluent in the cistern to the slow…
Passive cooling against the setting sun
I’ve previously noted that the setting sun heats up the west facing wall of BaanMae to an very uncomfortable level. And since the house uses a low thermal mass design, the heat radiates into the west bedroom (the one Praew and I sleep in) quite readily. For the example in the previous post, when it…
Drawing BaanRimNaam
Today we hung out on the balcony of BaanMae and Praew made a sketch of BaanRimNaam on her relatively new Samsung Galaxy Tab A. At least one of us is artistic. 🙂
Hacking a better switch for the UV light
My biggest problem with all of the UV light based water filters on the market is the switch on the UV light. The cable from the switch to the filter is only about 50cm long. If the filter is installed under the sink (where else would you want to install it if you had a…
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